A New London Flora; or, Handbook to the Botanical Localities of the Metropolitan Districts

London, Hardwicke and Bogue 1877 xxiv, 179pp 17x11, dark green cloth, glt text on spine Back board creased and bumped, pulling to spine, some foxing, very good thus. Detailed catalogue of the plants to be find in and around London; particularly interesting is the summary by locality, with lists for 75 different areas from Godalming to the Essex cornfields around Fyfield.

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Book number: 37033

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ARRILOA Andreu, GEUZE Adriaan, HOYER Steen et al

Modern Park Design. Recent Trends

Bussum, Thoth, 1993 135pp, ills, plans etc. Wraps, 24x16. Very good. Lectures given at at a conference entitled "The Park", organised by the Panorama Foundation in 1992, plus nine further chapters added by the authors. Very good source on recent park design.

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Book number: 33827

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ASHTON John

Hyde Park From Domesday Book To Date

London, Downey & Co, 1896 viii, 282pp, 21 tissue-guarded ills 23x16, coarse green cloth, glt txt Cloth rather faded and rubbed, end-papers splitting slightly, ownership stamp on half title, few pencil marks in margin, one signature loose. Attractively illustrated history of the park, covering everything from duels fought there to the Great Exhibition.

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Book number: 37078

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AUDOT L E

Traite de la Composition et de L'Ornement des Jardins, Volume one only.

Paris, (1818), 1859 6th ed. Colour frontis, viii, 220pp. Lovely red morocco spine with gilt lettering and raised bands, marbled boards, 19x22. Binding in very good condition, prelims quite browned and ancient stain to bottom of last thirty or so pages, rest of contents bright and binding tight, a nice looking book. Classic French source book for garden design. Plates volume not present.

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Book number: 32596

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BEAN WJ, with an introduction by Sir William THISTELTON-DYER

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Historical and Descriptive

London, Cassell and Co Ltd. 1908 xx, 222pp, 20 colour ills from paintings, 40 bw plates 26x19, cloth library binding, glt txt and shelf marks. Ex-lib, with stamps and labels, neat library binding with tooled shelf mark, edges a bit dusty, binding somewhat tight, good thus.

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Book number: 37084

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BELLAMY Joyce

Hyde Park For Horsemanship

London, JA Allen 1975 155pp, 33 bw illustrations, some on plates 22x14, crimson boards, illustrated dw. Very good in similar dw, now protected Nice little history of equestrian use of the London Park, with 19th century cartoons and more recent photographs.

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Book number: 37077

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BRINCKMANN A E

Schöne Gärten Villen und Schlösser aus Fünf Jahrhunderten.

Munich, Algemeine Verlag, 1925. 215pp incl a great many photos, plans and artist's views. Gilt lettered pictoral cloth, 29x24. Good copy. Brinckmann was a significant writer on townscape and urban history, garden design and related topics of this period. In this work he begins with the gothic garden and there is a long section on eighteenth and nineteenth century German gardens (the English naturalistic style is hardly covered).

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Book number: 33956

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CANE Percy S (text)

Modern Gardens: British and Foreign

London, Studio, 1926-7. Tissue-guarded coloured frontis, viii, 166pp, mostly ills, 7 in colour. 30x21, gltd lttd embossed cloth Very good. Special Winter number of "The Studio". Architects and designers include, Cane, Dawber, Garnier, Olmsted, Siclis, Baillie Scott etc

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Book number: 38934

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CHESSELL Henry

National Parks for Britain

Birmingham, Cornish, nd c1943? Fp map, 60pp, 9 b/w photo plates. 25x19, cloth. Cloth grubby with a small piece missing at the top of spine, contents very good. Detailed wartime examination of the background to and future functions of National Parks in Britain.

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Book number: 34865

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CHILTERNS STANDING CONFERENCE

A Plan for the Chilterns

Aylesbury, 1971. iv, 74pp, many maps, photo, tables. 29x20, illustrated wraps. Owner's name on ffep, very good thus. This sensitive area was greatly threatened by London growth and other pressures.

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Book number: 34847

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COLVIN Brenda

Land and Landscape:

London, John Murray, 1948. xii, 266pp incl 106 plates, 17 figs. 22x15, cloth. Couple of minor bumps to the top edge of the front, edges a little dusty, good thus. Important summary of this key landscape architect's ideas and approach.

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Book number: 36520

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COOK ET (ed)

Carnations and Pinks

London, Country Life Library 1905 xii, 162pp, 30 bw plates. 24x15, blue cloth with glt lettering. Ex-library, with usual marks and labels. Nice combination of history and plantsman's guide to these ever-popular garden flowers.

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Book number: 34869

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THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S ASSOCIATION

The Estate Magazine

Letchworth, October, 1929. xxviii, pp721-800. Wraps, 24x15. Good condition.

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Book number: 30421

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CURTIS Henry S.

The Practical Conduct of Play,

NY, Macmillan, (1915), 1922. xi, 330pp plus 16 b&w plates, bibliog. Cloth 19x13. Good. General principles and practical ways of improving playgrounds. Some lovely old photographs. US study.

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Book number: 15032

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DIXON HUNT John

Vauxhall and London's Garden Theatres

Cambridge, Chadwyck-Healey 1985 107pp, 50 illustrations on slides 21x15, illustrated wraps (slides in two standard slide cases) Very good. Idiosyncratic approach to publishing - part of the Theatres in Focus series of monographs with slides - but interesting and well-illustrated nonetheless.

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Book number: 37093

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